So, you just upgraded your Lenovo Y40-70, Y40-80 laptop to Windows from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, but as soon as you boot and start using Windows 10, you’re greeted with Blue Screen of Death i.e. Internal Power Error and computer just restart. The real cause of this issue in Lenovo Y40 series laptops is AMD Drivers which are crashing due to non-compatibility with Windows 10. Downloading the drivers via AMD Catalyst shall not work and i won’t recommend too doing that way. Show the exit gate to AMD Catalyst in your computer. And you’ll need to install the drivers provided by Lenovo for AMD graphics card.

Probably you’ll be getting a hard time getting to desktop of Windows 10. But we need to get rid of installed AMD drivers from your laptop. Hence, follow below given steps:

When your laptop restarts because of Blue screen of death, Press F8 and hold during restart until the computer shows you “See Advanced Repair Options“. You can also enter Recovery by continuous pressing Shift key + Click on Restart while being on Login screen of Windows 10. Usually till that login page, Windows 10 works fine.

As soon as you get into recovery options, click “See advanced repair options > Troubleshoot” (if you reached recovery after restart) or click “Troubleshoot” if you reached recovery options via Shift+Restart way.

Click Advanced Options > Startup Settings

Windows now shall notify you with options you’ll get in advanced boot options upon restart. Click Restart.

1 COMMENT

I have exactly this problem with my Y40. I followed your instructions to the letter but it didn’t not work, blue screen still pops up whenver I boot up or wake my laptop from sleep. Can it be anything else?

you MUST enable javascript to be able to commentParticipate in this conversation via emailGet notified of new comments on this post. If discussion generates more than a few emails daily your subscription will be paused automatically.

Subscribe Via Email

Subscribe to our newsletter to get all the latest updates to your inbox..!